What an outstanding picture. It is like a painting exhibiting trompe l'oeil. But of course it is reality, or at least as close as one can get to reality without becoming snarled up in philosophical considerations on the nature of reality. I hope that is perfectly clear. :)
As for the image... I am happy that you are struck by it as I was. I would like to take credit but alas it is purloined from writing water flower in the search box, googling, and selecting from the images google displayed and offered. So it is only that I had the taste for it and so do you.
Some years ago my poetry took on a mythic flavor and I became a character in my own poems, a mage, "the man of the Northern Wall". This apellation is not completely fictional. My middle name is Noordwal, a Dutch term for north wall, though in current Dutch it mainly means north bank as in riverbank. I was told that an ancestor, a Portugese Jew escaping the Inquisition, settled in a small Dutch town and took this name from where he settled, near the north wall of the town. I have thought for a long time that -wal meant wall, think my mother told me that. A linguist might say that my usage is no longer common, is an older usage, but then the Inquisition happened in Portugal a few centuries ago, right around the time the Moors lost control of the Iberian Peninsula and the Jews lost the modest protection given them by Islam. Now I write as this mage, my poetry persona.
Mechanical designer for industry, now retired, once a Bay Area Hippie, went undercover in 1972, I've been writing poetry for years.
Contact: 3topper45@gmail.com
What an outstanding picture. It is like a painting exhibiting trompe l'oeil. But of course it is reality, or at least as close as one can get to reality without becoming snarled up in philosophical considerations on the nature of reality. I hope that is perfectly clear. :)
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt that I understand what you have written here.
DeleteAs for the image... I am happy that you are struck by it as I was. I would like to take credit but alas it is purloined from writing water flower in the search box, googling, and selecting from the images google displayed and offered. So it is only that I had the taste for it and so do you.
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